The Linux version is only available as a rpm package for openSUSE 12.3 and 13.1 right now, just do a “zypper in dolphinviewer3-beta” after adding the repository (instructions are on the download page) to try it out.

Update: the download link for a Linux version of the Dolphin Viewer 3 BETA is here. Of course openSUSE users can simply install it with zypper or from YaST, if the repository has been added.

Like this:

I’m sure that by now a lot of rumours and white noise is flying around after Ebbe Altberg basically announced at a TPV meeting that the Lab is working on “the next big thing” to come.

Especially in this thread on SLU a lot of people sound as if the Lab is going to pull the plug on SL “any time now”.

To that I only say, “If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant an apple tree today.”

From what I understand from what Ebbe actually said at the TPV meeting, SL is here to stay for at least several more years, I mean come on, first beta late next year, that means public availability as a finished product not until 4-5 years from now… and he says even then they will keep SL around as long as it makes them money.

What this means for The Dolphin Viewer is pretty obvious to me: I’ll be working on it just as before (which means way too slow to be proud about it). Heh, if y’all have a problem with my working speeds, chip in some $ so that I can have a laptop that actually has enough power to work on building viewers when I’m travelling

That being said… “This is the end of Second Life” has been a constant cry to be heard in certain forums for the last five years at least, and guess what, my account still works, so… guess what, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the lights go dark.

Like this:

At some point during all the work in progress that I’ve been doing here, I must have renamed the original repository for the Dolphin Viewer 3, so the download links on the download page all got broken.

And I made a few decisions about some features that the Dolphin Viewer won’t have in the future:

No client-side AO (To fully implement this in such a way that the user can have the same advantages that are possible with inworld AO attachments , I’d have to port the scripted Bridge from Firestorm, and that is too big a fish for me to fry. Besides I don’t want to force an attachment like the Bridge on people.)

No media filter (Is that one really still needed? Does actually having to confirm the URL for a stream actually help anything?)

No Flickr uploader (After all there is “SL Share” coming from the Lab, which includes a Flickr uploader, and posting to Twitter.)

So after getting through all that “Project Interesting” mess, I still need to get the build tools sorted, area search, and the inventory filters … and then we can haz dolphins!

openSUSE 12.2 is officially End-Of-Life as of January 27, 2014. That means, I won’t be providing rpm packages of the Dolphin Viewer 3 for openSUSE 12.2 anymore. The last one available for openSUSE 12.2 will be 3.4.14.

That being said, if you are running openSUSE 12.3, and have been using the Dolphin Viewer 3 through packages from the RPM repository, try a “zypper install dolphinviewer3-beta” if you feel like it

Once I have an actual release, the beta version will uninstall itself, just like magic.